1. PM Modi and Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto together opened a conservation project at the Prambanan Temple complex. Which Indian agency leads the project?
Answer: E. The Archaeological Survey of India is the lead Indian agency. Modi and Prabowo jointly inaugurated the conservation and restoration project at the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Yogyakarta, Java, on 8 July 2026.
2. Indonesia's biggest Hindu temple complex, Prambanan, is mainly devoted to which deity?
Answer: B. Prambanan, built in the 9th–10th century by the Sanjaya dynasty, chiefly honours Lord Shiva alongside Brahma and Vishnu. Its central Shiva temple stands 47 metres tall with Ramayana reliefs, and it became a UNESCO site in 1991, one of Indonesia's 10.
3. How many students across India's schools does the Ministry of Education's UDISE+ Report 2025-26 cover?
Answer: D. The report, released on 7 July 2026, covers 24.72 crore students, 1.03 crore teachers and 14.67 lakh schools. UDISE+ began in 2018-19 and is India's biggest school education database; teacher numbers are up 8.3% since 2022-23, with 90.2% of students Aadhaar-seeded.
4. UDISE+ 2025-26 puts the Secondary-stage Pupil-Teacher Ratio (PTR) at 21:1. What PTR benchmark does NEP 2020 set?
Answer: A. NEP 2020 sets 30:1, and India beats it at every stage: 10:1 Foundational, 12:1 Preparatory, 17:1 Middle and 21:1 Secondary. Secondary GER climbed to 71.7% from 68.5%, women are 54.9% of teachers, and secondary dropout fell to 7.0%.
5. What is the total outlay of the PM-SETU scheme, whose nationwide rollout across 200 ITI clusters was approved on 7 July 2026?
Answer: C. PM-SETU is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of ₹60,000 crore over 5 years under MSDE, announced in Budget 2024-25, cleared in May 2025 and launched 4 October 2025. It targets upgrading 1,000 government ITIs with World Bank and ADB co-financing, and SIPs of ₹1,237.58 crore were cleared for 5 clusters in Odisha, Gujarat and Telangana.
6. According to the AISHE 2023-24 Report, the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education touched what level for the first time?
Answer: A. The report, released 8 July 2026, shows GER hitting 30.0 for the first time with total enrolment of 4.50 crore. Female GER is 31.2, the Gender Parity Index is 1.08 for the 7th year above 1.0, and ST enrolment grew fastest at 75.7%.
7. India overtook Spain to become the world's ____ largest LNG regasification market, according to the IGU World LNG Report 2026.
Answer: C. India ranks 4th in regasification with 52.5 mtpa across 8 working terminals, after adding 7.1 mtpa in 2025, and is also the fourth biggest LNG importer. LNG is natural gas chilled to −162°C and is about 95% methane.
8. SEBI amended its FPI Regulations to swap the USD 2,500 registration fee for Category-I FPIs with a rupee fee of how much?
Answer: E. The new fee is ₹2.3 lakh, applicable after six months, covering Category-I FPIs and FVCIs, and it removes dollar dependence while easing collection and reconciliation. Applicants must also give a date of birth or incorporation for PAN, and DDPs must remit fees to SEBI within 5 working days.
9. Which statement correctly sets FPI apart from FDI?
Answer: B. FPI means putting money into financial assets such as shares, bonds and mutual funds for returns, usually short term and without management control, under SEBI. FDI is a direct, long-term investment with real ownership and a say in management.
10. Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's PRAGATI initiative seeks to build a nationwide network of how many agri-entrepreneurs?
Answer: D. PRAGATI targets 20,000 agri-entrepreneurs in 8 states (MP, Bihar, UP, Assam, WB, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Rajasthan) to spread regenerative, climate-resilient farming. It is a privately led, multi-stakeholder effort whose entrepreneurs run village kiosks for agronomy advice, soil health, mechanisation, credit and market access.
11. Which organisation originated the concept of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), built on productivity, resilience and emission reduction?
Answer: B. FAO coined CSA, which rests on raising productivity and incomes sustainably, adapting to climate change, and cutting or removing greenhouse gases where possible. Regenerative farming, PRAGATI's focus, covers no-till, cover crops, crop rotation, agroforestry and livestock integration.
12. Prof. S. Mahendra Dev, who said more non-farm jobs can solve India's agricultural problem, chairs which body?
Answer: D. He has chaired the Economic Advisory Council to the PM since 5 June 2025. The EAC-PM, in its present form since 26 September 2017, is a non-statutory, non-constitutional body with non-binding advice. Farming gives about 17% of GDP and about 43% of jobs, and 86% of farmers are small or marginal.
13. DRDO tested the guided long-range Pinaka rocket from ITR Chandipur. What user-defined minimum strike range was confirmed?
Answer: A. The guided Pinaka, a Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher system, was fired at Chandipur in Odisha, where it met the user-defined minimum range of 60 km and struck the designated target precisely.
14. For which forthcoming mission did ISRO carry out the CE20 cryogenic engine Flight Acceptance Hot Test on 6 July 2026?
Answer: C. The test was for the LVM3-M7 mission, carried out at the Main Engine & Stage Test facility at IPRC Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu. The engine ran at 19.5 tonnes of thrust for 45 seconds and at 22 tonnes for 25 seconds.
15. In which city did Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram launch "TribeX", India's first digital learning platform on tribal arts, culture and traditional knowledge?
Answer: E. TribeX was launched in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, at the National Workshop on Strengthening Tribal Research Institutes, as the first digital learning platform devoted to tribal art, culture and traditional knowledge.
16. Geneva hosted the first session of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance 2026. Which pair serves as its Co-chairs?
Answer: C. Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff co-chair it, with ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin as Vice-Chair. It met 6-7 July 2026 under UNGA Resolution 79/325, following the Global Digital Compact, and India sent MoS Kirti Vardhan Singh.
17. Under Section 39 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, Mizoram's Natural History Museum in Aizawl became which numbered Designated Repository in India?
Answer: E. MoEFCC notified the Aizawl museum as India's 21st Designated Repository under Section 39, acting on the National Biodiversity Authority's recommendation.
18. ICAR-NRC on Yak and Assam Don Bosco University built an IoT smart collar for yaks. By what nickname is the domestic yak (Bos grunniens) known?
Answer: B. The yak is the "Ship of the Himalayas", suited to sub-zero alpine conditions and a source of milk, meat, fibre, fuel and load carrying. ICAR's National Research Centre on Yak made the smart collar with Assam Don Bosco University.
19. GIFT City signed an MoU to boost cross-border investment and financial links with the Vietnam International Financial Center in which city?
Answer: D. The partner is VIFC-Da Nang, with the MoU signed in New Delhi by India's IFSC. GIFT City also signed MoUs with Tata Communications on Global Capability Centres and with CEPT University.
20. Sirsa Kinnow, newly given a GI tag, is the first GI-tagged fruit of which state?
Answer: A. It is Haryana's first GI-tagged fruit, granted to Kharisureran Farmer Producer Company Limited in Sirsa district. Kinnow is a King Mandarin × Willow Leaf Mandarin hybrid made by Howard B. Frost in early 20th-century California, rich in vitamin C, calcium and potassium.
21. Who will serve as South Indian Bank's MD & CEO for three years starting 1 October 2026?
Answer: D. Mahesh Muralidhar Pai takes over from P.R. Seshadri on 1 October 2026. Separately, N.S. Vishwanathan was reappointed part-time Chairman of Axis Bank for three years, from 27 October 2026 to 26 October 2029.
22. As InsuranceDekho's brand ambassador, Sourav Ganguly started which campaign aimed at insurance advisors?
Answer: A. Ganguly launched "Khul Kar Khelo". InsuranceDekho, legally Girnar Insurance Brokers Pvt. Ltd., was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana.
23. Shapoor Zadran, who died aged 38 in New Delhi, was a left-arm fast bowler for which country?
Answer: C. Zadran, born 8 July 1987 in Paktia Province, played for Afghanistan as a left-arm fast bowler and died in New Delhi on 7 July 2026 at 38.